Vocation - Beyond the Narrow View

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BY Clare Condon SGS*

Recently in Kraków, Poland, during World Youth Day, Pope Francis spoke very plainly to young people. He said: “Dear young people, we didn’t come into this work to ‘vegetate’, to take it easy, to make our lives a comfortable sofa to fall asleep on. No, we came for another reason: to leave a mark”. Pope Francis invited them to search out their true vocation and purpose in life and to make a difference.

The mark that he was referring to implies a freedom that brings happiness into one’s own life and to the lives of others, rather than “rejection, division and emptiness”.

 

 

Catholic Dictionary (Catholic Culture.org http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?letter=V)
 

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VOCATION

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A call from God to a distinctive state of life, in which the person can reach holiness. The Second Vatican Council made it plain that there is a "Universal call [vocatio] to holiness in the Church" (Lumen Gentium, 39). (Etym. Latin vocatio, a calling, summoning; from vocare, to call.)